sleep issue

I am trying to figure out how to make my computer sleep when itunes or vlc are the active application but not playing anything. I got sleep# from sourceforge and that seems to be working for vlc. is there some way to override all programs ability to stop the computer from sleeping?

Just for information. It appears Windows 8 does not seem to like sleeping and maintaining a Network Adapter. Every time the system has been put to sleep, after awakening, the network adapter is disabled, and I cannot enable it without a reboot. I am also not sure what a "Microsoft Kernel...

Fixes an issue in which you have to wait more than two minutes to access mapped drives if you enable the "Always available offline" option. This occurs after you wake a computer that is running Windows 7 from sleep. More...

Describes an issue where you receive Stop Error 000000FE (Error 0xFE) (BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER). Link Removed

Desktop does not respond to mouse actions as previously nor the front panel power switch. I have to disconnect the power cord, reconnect, and press the front panel power button. Then the unit starts up and returns to window without the login window as if it was sleeping. The problem started...

Fixes an issue in which a USB hub stops working in Windows 7 if you click the mouse while the computer is entering sleep. This issue occurs after you install hotfix package 978258 on the computer. Link Removed

Fixes an issue in which you cannot establish a dial-up connection through a modem and you receive an "Error 633" error message. This issue occurs after you resume a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 from sleep or from... More...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot connect a computer to a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN). This issue occurs after you resume a computer that is running Windows 7 from sleep. More...

Hey guys, Recently, I have not been able to get my computer to sleep. I used to press a button on the keyboard and it would go to sleep, this worked until a couple of days ago. When I press the button now, the monitors go black and then take me to the login screen. I have already done a...

I just put together a new PC and it's very slow to resume from sleep. I set the BIOS to use S3 sleep. I put the computer into sleep manually and all of the fans/lights go off in a 5 seconds or so. When I resume from sleep it takes about 20 seconds before Windows comes back on. By...

W7HP edition. Sometimes my computer will go to sleep, but most of the time it won't. The only time it will guarantee to go to sleep, is if I am downloading a large file. If I am downloading, 100% of the time, it will go to sleep. Is there a setting somewhere, that will tell the computer to not...

I've got a Windows 7 Pro 64 bit system (6.1.7600.16385) with a bit of an issue. It's a high end, RAID 1 (hardware configured) system. Quad core Xeon and 8GB ram... I need this system to stay running until I tell it otherwise..... but it's not. I always disable Windows updates, just for this...

My laptop will go to sleep BUT when I wake it up I get a backlight and fan, and that is it. To recover, I must disconnect power, pull the battery, replug all that and cold boot. It just started this about a week ago. Before that it worked just fine. A windows update may be responsible as I have...

Hello; When I press Sleep at start menu, screen just goes to black for 1-2 seconds and after Windows Logon menu appears. I've tried Allow waker timers to off, When sharing media to Allow the computer to sleep, Allow hybrid sleep to On/Off, USB selective suspend settings to...

I recently made a post about the sleep issue, but to rephrase, I was having trouble with my Acer Aspire 4810T sleeping when I closed the lid, but I managed to fix it by changing the properties for my wifi card so that it would not wake up the computer. The other day I downloaded a driver update...

I have Win 7 (64bit) Home Premium. I have been experiencing black screens after resuming from sleep or hibernate. The system doesn't seem to hang, only refuses to display anything. I need to push the restart button for few seconds to shut off the PC. When started everything works fine. Please...

Hi, I've got two computer lanned with a router. One uses windows XP and one uses windows 7. When I shut my windows 7 PC down and start it up again, it will not be able to locate any networks, troubleshooting does not help. My other PC can still access the internet this time so it must be a...

Hi, I installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit (not the beta or the RC) on my Shuttle XPC Quad Q6600 with Intel G33/G31 chipset with the Intel driver for the win7 RC (version 8.15.10.1912). There are some issues... Mainly when waking up from sleep (garbled display, incomplete graphics, windows in...

Hi All, From last 2 days my pc is going sleep automatically, in the Event Viewer this are the things which i found before going to sleep state. Event Id Source --------------------------------- 8033 BROWSER 4001 WLAN-AutoConfig 10029 DistributedCOM Is this a virus? or is there any solution...

OK, this has been bothering me for a while... I have an ASUS P5N7A-VM, latest BIOS, nothing OC'd, no add-in cards, no USB peripherals other than a Logitech MX510 mouse (using the built-in Windows driver). The board has NVIDIA GeForce 9300/nForce 730i chipset and I'm using the onboard...